Chapter 184 Chain Fruit + Additional Fruit

When a person devotes himself to a passion, the concept of time often becomes blurred.

A lack of variability in climate conditions can also exacerbate the situation, making it difficult to notice the passage of time.

at this point,

This is a fact that Elus has experienced personally.

"Hainian calendar, 1520... If I remember correctly, the real son of destiny is going to sea?"

The terrifying three-masted sailboat in the afternoon was still as dark as ever. The fog today was much lighter than in the past few days. It was already a rare good weather here. Elus sat in the courtyard to relax and relax. Cool down the overloaded brain and cool down the brain that is about to boil.

"Unknowingly, I have been here for almost half a year."

In the second half of the year 1519, he boarded the terrifying three-masted sailing ship. Today, it is already 1520, and he stayed on this island for nearly half a year... on this ship. If it weren't for Eleus who stayed at home most of the time and stayed in the castle to do research, Moria would have wondered if the Black Prince was coming to take over the magpie's nest.

Staying here for nearly half a year is worthwhile enough.

Studying the Lingling Fruit and the Underworld Fruit gave Elus a huge help, allowing him to further improve his understanding of the soul, and his control over Bengyu to a higher level, which also led to his decision to replace the Devil Fruit. Research on controlling more abilities has also yielded results.

His hypothesis... came true.

Eat a Superman-type Devil Fruit, master the corresponding ability, then 'spit' the Devil Fruit out, and then eat a new Superman-type Devil Fruit... over and over again, constantly updated, so as to achieve a constantly stronger A perfect cycle of its own.

But during this period, there were still small problems, no, to be precise, they were necessary costs.

That is time,

"go!"

Elus raised his hand and waved lightly, and an iron-colored chain flew out from his palm and penetrated the stone pillar standing in the courtyard.

Superhuman Chain Fruit.

This is the first Superman-type Devil Fruit that Elus has eaten. As the name suggests, the fruit's ability is that chains can be generated from any part of the body and be manipulated freely... It is the same type as the Thread Fruit. Of course, this The original owner of this devil fruit was not as powerful as Tenyasha.

The original user of the Chain Fruit is a treasure hunter who will do anything in pursuit of treasure.

He was unlucky and broke into the Magic Triangle in search of treasure. The treasure was not found, but he became someone else's treasure. By chance, he met Fran who was going fishing at the beach... Needless to say, the result was... After being knocked over by the maid lady, he was sent to Eleus's laboratory.

After some attempts, Elus succeeded in stripping the Devil Fruit from the living esper.

He was originally worried that the power of Bengyu's Devil Fruit peeling off would only affect him. If that was the case, he would have to look for those superhuman Devil Fruits that had not been eaten by others... Fortunately, his worries did not come true. , the cantaloupe-shaped chain fruit dispelled his worries.

Elus didn't pick anything and ate the chain fruit directly.

Apart from the unspeakably bad taste, Superman-type Devil Fruits and Animal-type Devil Fruits are quite different in other aspects. Animal-type Devil Fruits have achieved species changes, and the 'Beast Form' has become a physical form. Real animals.

Superman is different,

After eating the Chain Fruit, Elus naturally mastered the ability to "freely manipulate chains", creating, manipulating, and disappearing... This is a completely different experience from the animal devil fruit.

He spent a month, with the help of Bengyu, to analyze the ability of the Chain Fruit, and gained a complete understanding of the Chain Fruit.

Then he washed away the Chain Fruit nervously, and watched as the cantaloupe in his hand turned into a new Chain Fruit. Elus found that he had lost the ability to generate chains.

At that time, my mood instantly hit rock bottom.

Fortunately,

There is always a way out.

Elus lost his knowledge and understanding of the 'chain of creation', but he did not lose his knowledge and memory of 'free manipulation of the chain'.

His mind retains all the experiences of manipulating chains,

He just didn't know how to generate the chains.

There is a missing key to the treasure.

This prevented him from giving up completely, and still held on to a glimmer of hope, constantly trying to regain control of this ability.

At this time, Bengyu responded to his wish and used Elus's soul as raw material and the knowledge of the chain fruit in his memory as a model to forge the key called 'Generating Chain'. He once again mastered 'freedom'. The ability to manipulate chains'.

At the same time, he discovered that the Chain Fruit had not disappeared. He selected a lucky person from among his subordinates, ate the Chain Fruit in front of Elus, and successfully generated iron-colored chains.

This behavior does not violate the law of uniqueness of Devil Fruit.

thus,

Elus vaguely understood the nature of the Devil Fruit.

The so-called Devil Fruit should be the embodiment of the rules of this world.

Since it is an incarnation, it means that Devil Fruits are not simply 'dead things'. The idea that devils reside in the fruit is not entirely meant to scare people. Devil Fruits are conscious, and they will choose the person who eats the first bite of the fruit. host, and will not choose the second or third eater.

Another point,

According to Elus, the self-consciousness of Devil Fruit is very similar to that of Bengyoku. They do not have any initiative and will only operate according to their own established rules.

One of the rules is to choose the person who eats the first bite of the fruit as the host.

Secondly, there is the rule that only one Devil Fruit can be consumed. Elus speculates that this is caused by the instinctive awareness of the uniqueness of Devil Fruits. This is not only reflected in the fact that there will not be two identical Devil Fruits at the same time. In this regard,

It is also reflected in the fact that when two different Devil Fruits are eaten by the same ability user, their instinctive consciousness called uniqueness collides with each other unconsciously, both of them want to monopolize the body of the ability user. The power that bursts out when the collision will destroy greed. The ability user was blown to pieces.

Furthermore, Devil Fruits will not completely die out when the person with the ability dies.

Devil fruits are the incarnation of the rules of this world. People with abilities only control this power, rather than digesting the incarnations of the rules. They do not belong to the people with abilities. When the life of the person with abilities comes to an end, the incarnation of the rules will return to the world. A certain corner of it is condensed into the form of fruit.

Also, Devil Fruit users will become landlubbers.

Rules like this build the self-awareness of Devil Fruits that lack initiative.

The ability that Elus masters is not the incarnation of the rules condensed by depriving the world, but the rules that Bengyu weaves in imitation of the Devil Fruit that truly belong to Elus. One belongs to the world, and the other belongs to Elus. Us, there is no conflict between the two, and it does not violate the rules of the uniqueness of devil fruits.

In order to verify his suspicion, Elus ate the second Superman-type Devil Fruit.

While he was familiar with the ability to master the Chain Fruit,

The felons imprisoned in the palace dungeons that he had named and requested had been brought over and were being held in cells in the castle.

After mastering the ability to 'freely control chains', he peeled off a superhuman system that he was extremely interested in from this loyal subordinate who had not forgotten the "King of Seas" and was still loyal to Umit. Devil Fruit.

Its name is——

Additional fruits.

This was the second Superman Devil Fruit he had eaten.

After eating this Devil Fruit, he discovered a problem that was not a problem. Depending on the abilities of the Superman Devil Fruit, the time required to analyze its abilities also varied. With Bengyu's assistance, he spent a month This completes the analysis of the Chain Fruit.

This analysis does not mean that Eleus has completely and perfectly mastered this ability.

It can only be said that Elus has laid the foundation, and Bengyu has analyzed and recorded the possibility of future progress.

However, more than two months have passed since then, and the analysis of this additional fruit has not yet been completed.

He speculated that if nothing unexpected happened, it would take more than two months to complete the analysis of the additional fruits. In other words, the analysis of the additional fruits might take half a year... This made Elus realize You can no longer just pick and choose superhuman devil fruits to take.

If he had enough time, Elus wouldn't mind slowly analyzing one Superman-type Devil Fruit after another.

As the saying goes, there is no harm in mastering more skills.

It is a pity that it is already the year 1520 of the Hainan calendar, and the son of destiny is about to set sail. The torrent of destiny is about to reach a new climax unstoppably. Even though the world has been changed beyond recognition by Elus, the torrent of destiny will Where the future will go is still unknown.

I don’t want to follow the crowd and wait for the future Pirate King to be crowned king, I want to make the world change according to my own wishes——

Elus needs stronger power to change the world.

The iron-colored chains danced like dragons and snakes in the courtyard, and the stone pillars standing in the courtyard were smashed to pieces. This is an ability very similar to Tenyasha's Thread Fruit. It is not as subtle as the Thread Fruit, but it has the coldness of steel. Hard, overall, this ability to 'freely manipulate chains' has enough practical value.

With a slight movement of his hand, the chains circling in the courtyard instantly retracted, disintegrated and disappeared.

"--Da da da!"

Footsteps sounded,

Elus stopped thinking about testing his ability and looked where the footsteps came from.

"Fran, what's the matter?"

"Your Highness, the Water City has replied."

"Oh? How's the situation? Is the target still there?"

"It is confirmed that the target person is still staying in the Water City Commercial Street, running the bar, and there is no sign of intention to leave... Your Highness, is this person an agent of CP9?" Elus visited for the first time. Fran was accompanying him in the Water Capital, and she also took her maids to steal the 'Pluto Blueprint'.

She also knew that the World Government was keeping an eye on Mayor Bingshan and sent CP9 agents to lurk in the Water City, plotting the blueprint for the ancient battleship 'Pluto'.

"I told you last time, right? Well, it doesn't matter, as long as no one runs away."

Elvus focused on Bruno, a member of CP9 who was lurking in the water city and opened a bar. The man with his hair combed like horns, to be precise, he focused on Bruno's ability, the superhuman door fruit, which can Open the door anywhere...

After realizing that he couldn't waste time and energy by eating Devil Fruits casually, Eleus began to choose his next target from the many Superman-type Devil Fruits he knew he could acquire.

After screening, Menmen Fruit ranked first.

After comprehensive consideration from the practicality of abilities to the difficulty of obtaining the fruit, the Gate Fruit was listed as the first choice. In addition, there are also Surgery Fruit, Heavy Fruit, Shock Fruit, Floating Fruit, Soul Soul Fruit, and Slowness. Fruit, memory fruit and many other options.

In Elus' opinion, the theoretical value of these superhuman devil fruits is not much lower than that of the gate fruits.

It's just that each of them is either difficult to obtain or the whereabouts of the ability user has not been found for the time being. In contrast, Bruno has been squatting in the Water City. CP9 is not strong at all. It is not difficult for him at all. The Menmen Fruit The ability that is roughly equivalent to space transfer is also quite eye-catching.

"Have someone keep an eye on me. Don't let the target disappear suddenly...Forget it, I'll go there myself."

Elus is still analyzing the additional fruits. Originally, he was not planning to take action against Bruno in a hurry, but considering that it is already the year 1520 of the Ocean Calendar, God knows whether CP9 will be driven by fate to become the children of destiny. stone.

In case,

It's better to get the Menmen fruit first, so as not to run away and find no one later.

"Your Highness, are you leaving now?"

Fran looked at Elus who got up and walked towards the castle, and asked in confusion.

"Leave now to avoid a long night of dreams... Also, pay more attention to the news about the East China Sea and Paradise recently. If a powerful new pirate appears, remember to remind me to read the newspaper." He has been addicted to it in the past two months. Due to the research and development of Devil Fruit, I haven't touched entertainment products such as newspapers for a long time.

Like today, he said he was going to relax in the courtyard, but he ended up unconsciously starting to experiment and exercise his Devil Fruit abilities.

I have worked so hard that I forget to eat and sleep.

If it weren't for Fran and a group of capable maids waiting on him, he would have gone bad.

"I see."

Fran nodded in agreement.

Although I was a little worried about His Highness's condition, but after thinking about it carefully, with His Highness's physical condition... he shouldn't have to worry about sudden death after staying up too late. Putting aside her worries, the maid turned around to make travel arrangements.

The City of Water is not far from the Magic Triangle.

Just be prepared for everything. The moody sea is the most difficult to fathom. Anything can happen at sea, so it is necessary to be more prepared.